End of my rope

[Thumper]

If you go out and recruit, train, and motivate children. Then send them out to go blow themselves up along with other children, I really don't see any reason whatsoever for you to be on this planet.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Hard to disagree with that.

[geonuc]

Yep

[SciFi Chick]

I would feel no guilt over ending "people" like that. It makes me want to throw up.

[SciFiFisher]

Makes the Roman Empire solution seem like a reasonable course of action for the middle east.

[Rommie]

Yeah. Tons of Europeans seriously worried because many, many parents along with their kids moved to ISIS controlled territory when they were on the rise and now are re-infiltrating Europe. You actually get arrested in the Netherlands if they can prove you were there, and they've caught several teenagers sneaking back.

What they end up doing to those teens is keep them in juvie but also schedule them regular meetings with imams to hopefully get it through these kids' skulls that what they learned is a perversion of Islam. I mean, what else can you do? But it's scary because no way they can catch everyone.

[SciFiFisher]

It's a dilemma. One thing that seems to help is assimilation into the host country culture. Things like employment, education, and having moderate religious leaders who preach peace, love, and tolerance for infidels all make a difference.

The problem with assimilation is that many people see it as an attempt by the host culture to destroy the culture of the immigrants. So, they keep creating enclaves where they are sheltered from being assimilated. Sometimes the host culture actually encourages this in a negative sort of way. As long as they don't feel like the country, culture, people they live in/with is theirs and one that they feel affinity with it will be easier to radicalize them.

If you give people hope that tomorrow will be a better day you will drastically reduce the incidence of radicalization.

But, truthfully I think we have a better chance if we were to round up every radical Imam we could find and permanently detain them.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Makes the Roman Empire solution seem like a reasonable course of action for the middle east.

which was less drastic than the result of the Third Punic War.....

....But, truthfully I think we have a better chance if we were to round up every radical Imam we could find and permanently detain them.

In a deserted Island somewhere in the Southern Pacific Ocean?

[SciFiFisher]

....But, truthfully I think we have a better chance if we were to round up every radical Imam we could find and permanently detain them.

In a deserted Island somewhere in the Southern Pacific Ocean?

too pleasant. I am thinking somewhere cooler. Say... Siberia.

[Sigma_Orionis]

....But, truthfully I think we have a better chance if we were to round up every radical Imam we could find and permanently detain them.

In a deserted Island somewhere in the Southern Pacific Ocean?

too pleasant. I am thinking somewhere cooler. Say... Siberia.

Not a good idea. You see, the plan is to keep them all together and then drop a nice H-Bomb from orbit. The fallout would be harder to contain in Siberia

[SciFiFisher]

....But, truthfully I think we have a better chance if we were to round up every radical Imam we could find and permanently detain them.

In a deserted Island somewhere in the Southern Pacific Ocean?

too pleasant. I am thinking somewhere cooler. Say... Siberia.

Not a good idea. You see, the plan is to keep them all together and then drop a nice H-Bomb from orbit. The fallout would be harder to contain in Siberia

So many Martyrs. So little time.

[SciFi Chick]

Makes the Roman Empire solution seem like a reasonable course of action for the middle east.

which was less drastic than the result of the Third Punic War.....

....But, truthfully I think we have a better chance if we were to round up every radical Imam we could find and permanently detain them.

In a deserted Island somewhere in the Southern Pacific Ocean?

Why the fuck do you want to mess up the South Pacific? Nooooooo....

[Sigma_Orionis]

Why the fuck do you want to mess up the South Pacific? Nooooooo....

Godzila

[SciFiFisher]

Why the fuck do you want to mess up the South Pacific? Nooooooo....

Godzila

Oh No! There Goes Tokyo! .... Godzilla!

[Thumper]

Don't get many BOC quotes anymore...

[Sigma_Orionis]

That's because there are three men in black going around saying "Don't Report This!"

[SciFiFisher]

Don't get many BOC quotes anymore...

There is something about the song Godzilla that just makes me smile.

[Sigma_Orionis]

Personally, I like the part where Eric Bloom starts shouting in Japanese

[SciFi Chick]

I am so very lost and confused right now...

[Thumper]

C'mon Information Goddess
Yeah, I'm smiling right now.
I wore the grooves off of Spectres.

[Sigma_Orionis]

[SciFi Chick]

C'mon Information Goddess
Yeah, I'm smiling right now.
I wore the grooves off of Spectres.

Apparently, I was having an off day. Thanks for clearing that up for me! I'm still catching up on all the "secular" music I missed out on as a Christian.

[SciFiFisher]

C'mon Information Goddess
Yeah, I'm smiling right now.
I wore the grooves off of Spectres.

Apparently, I was having an off day. Thanks for clearing that up for me! I'm still catching up on all the "secular" music I missed out on as a Christian.

I will have to tell you about discovering the 80's rock scene. In 2010.